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@Velocio
The past has caught up with us.
The 9 servers that run LFGSS have been stable for ages. Some 4 years in fact.
But... they are 4 years old.
The hosting company host these servers on virtual machines, but due to the old kernels we are running the servers are now throwing errors regularly (every 15-30 minutes).
What this means is that to keep LFGSS working on vBulletin, without it throwing errors, I would need to upgrade the kernel and operating system that we run on.
Therein lies a problem... we're using such an old version of vBulletin that we cannot upgrade the operating system without getting a new version of PHP that vBulletin does not run on.
The farce:
We were planning to migrate to Microcosm very soon, this weekend or next week. Basically as soon as we have verified that we have no bugs blocking us.
This post is to let you know: We have reached a point of no return, we cannot now stay on vBulletin 3.8 even if we wanted to, and we must leave the current servers as soon as we are able to, within days at the very worst.
We will perform a cut-off before we do the migration. Any post made after this time will NOT be migrated to Microcosm. We will push ahead with the migration as soon as we can.
We are now fighting fires and we have no hope to put them out... instead it's a race to escape before we are burned too badly. Whatever state Microcosm is in, it's a better state than staying put.
A crazy weekend beckons.